PAUL AND VIRGINIA. I7I 



I refolved to follow his advice. As foon as Paul 

 felt his ftrength, in fome degree, reftored, the firft 

 ufe which he made of it, was to retire from the 

 plantation. As 1 did not wifh to lofe fight of him, 

 I walked behind, and defired Domingo to bring 

 fome provifions, and to accompany us. In propor- 

 tion as the young man defcended from this moun- 

 tain, his joy and his ftrength feemed to revive. 

 He, at firft, bent his courfe toward Pamplemoufles, 

 and when he had arrived at the church, in the 

 bamboo-alley, he went diredly to the fpot where 

 he faw the earth had been newly dug up : there, 

 he kneeled down, and raifing his eyes to Heaven, 

 he offered up a long prayer. This adtion appeared 

 to me a happy prefage of returning reafon, as this 

 mark of confidence in the Supreme Being, was a 

 proof that his foul began to refume it's natural 

 fundlions. Domingo and 1 fell down on our knees 

 after his example, and prayed with him. At 

 length, he arofe, and walked to the northern part 

 of the ifland, without paying much attention tous. 

 As I knew that he was entirely ignorant, not only 

 where the body of Virginia was depofited, but alfo, 

 whether or not it had been faved from the Sea, I 

 afked him, why he had been praying to God at 

 the foot of the bamboos ; he replied : " We have 

 *' been there together fo often !" 



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